[8] Our correspondent is here somewhat in error: shops in Paris
may be seen _set out_ by seven o'clock in the morning.--ED. M.
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_Dick's Coffee-house, Temple Bar_.--The Rev. James Miller wrote a comedy,
in the year 1737, entitled "_The Coffee House_." "This piece met with no
kind of success, from a supposition, how just (says Baker,) I cannot
pretend to determine, that Mrs. Yarrow and her daughter, who kept Dick's
coffee-house, near Temple Bar, and were at that time celebrated toasts,
together with several persons who frequented that house, were intended to
be ridiculed by the author. This he absolutely denied as being his
intention; when the piece came out, however, the engraver who had been
employed to compose a frontispiece, having inadvertently fixed on that
very coffee-house for the scene of his drawing, the Templars, with whom
the abovementioned ladies were great favourites, became, by this accident,
so confirmed in their suspicions, that they united to damn the piece, and
even extended their resentment to every thing which was suspected to be
this author's, for a considerable time after."